Omar Mateen, the Islamist gunman who killed nearly 50 people in an Orlando nightclub and wounded over 50 more, pledged allegiance to ISIS in a call to authorities, but, Attorney General Loretta Lynch told Chuck Todd, that information will be left out of a partial transcript to be released on Monday.

“What’s being left out?” Todd asked Lynch on Sunday’s edition of “Meet the Press.”

“Well, what we’re not gonna do is further proclaim this individual’s pledges of allegiance to terrorist groups and further his propaganda,” she said. “We’re not gonna hear him make his assertions of allegiance, and that.”

Despite the censorship of context relating to Mateen’s motives, Lynch claimed to be committed to transparency of the ongoing investigation for the victims, their families and loved ones, and America at large.

“We’re trying to get as much information about this investigation out, as possible,” claimed Lynch.

A 10-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, Joe ran for a city council position in Riverside, Calif., in 1991 and managed successful campaigns for the Idaho state legislature. Co-author of "Banned: How Facebook enables militant Islamic jihad," Joe wrote for Examiner.com from 2010 until it closed in 2016 and his work has been published at Newsbusters, Spokane Faith and Values and other sites. He now runs the Conservative Firing Line.

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